“Bares for Rares”
No heart for German oak: dealers disdain the clunky professor’s chair
“Bares für Rares” dealer Daniel Meyer takes a seat in the clunky professor’s chair. He won’t buy it.
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Salesman Uwe Pfeifer tries to sell a clunky professor’s chair at “Bares für Rares”. The good piece is tried out straight away in the dealer room – but there are problems during the negotiation.
Horst Lichter makes no secret of what he thinks of this solid oak chair, which is available for assessment in the expert room of “Bares for Rares”: “Now we come back to the point where I have to say: You can’t talk about taste argue, “says the moderator.
Sven Deutschmanek immediately noticed that the left armrest is much more worn than the right. And concludes from this that a right-hander probably worked on it. “Or he always pushed the whiskey back and forth on the left,” says Lichter asleep.
The chunky piece was brought into the show by Uwe Pfeifer. The managing director from Betzdorf saved it from the garbage and had it upholstered at his own expense. Deutschmanek estimates that it was built around 1910. This type of armchair is popularly known as the “professor’s chair”, the expert explains. It is a convertible piece of furniture: the chair was used to work on it without a desk, as the armrests can be folded out here.
Object difficult to sell at “Bares for Rares”
The condition is not perfect and requires investment. But this has already been done by the seller Uwe Pfeifer – which is reflected in his asking price: In view of his financial advance payments, the 61-year-old would like to redeem 300 euros. Sven Deutschmanek thinks this is a healthy assessment. He sees the chair at 250 to 350 euros.
In the dealer room, Daniel Meyer takes a relaxed seat in the monster and says: “It’s great!”. “Then we already have a buyer for it,” smirks Walter “Waldi” Lehnertz. But he should be wrong: Almost everyone present submitted bids, but Meyer’s highest bid of 200 euros was not enough for the seller: “I’d rather take him with me again,” decides Uwe Pfeifer.
From a retailer’s point of view, this was probably the best decision, as Wolfgang Pauritsch notes from his own experience: “I recently had a chair like this in my shop. It stood like a German oak,” reports the Austrian. “He didn’t move.”
source: “Bares for Rares” in the ZDF media library